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sorry, what else would a reddit-clone full of reddit users be? I think a lot of people here are trying hard for this place to be reddit 🤷♀️
I’m certainly one of those who hope this place will remain better than Reddit, but Reddit had a lot of good qualities for a lot of years.
Perhaps instead of generally hating on Reddit, we be more specific about the negative characteristic we don’t want. Are you specifically comolaining about fake content?
The problem is that while I recognize this is fake, it’s a satisfying circle jerk (or is that what you are specifically complaining about?), and is one of the possible answers to “why did they vote like that?”
Early Reddit was more thoughtful and the communities were smaller, Lemmy theoretically could be the same, but a big problem IMO is that all social media has blended together and people are sharing stuff they see on Twitter and Facebook on every other platform.
Social media hadn't been so homogenized during old Reddit, and it was a lot less acceptable to cross pollinate between social media platforms.
The old Internet is just dead, in general. You would have to ban links like this that are just "other social media" on Lemmy. Otherwise, there aren't really any walls between the communities at all.
What is fake? The original tweet sounds like a lot of people you see on interviews on TV...
Maybe it is real, but it so perfectly fit the LeopardsAteMyFace meme that I have to assume it’s fake.
It already is Reddit.
I can't get people to understand that the people who cloned Reddit to make Lemmy didn't make something different, they made a shitty copy. There is clearly no innovation regarding solving the fundamental underlying, unaddressed problems of democratic social media.
Yeah the back end is slightly different, but from the end user perspective, it's a link dump filled with morons.
Until we move to a merit-based system of commenting and posting, we're going to be going in circles looking at stupid memes and misinformation and ill-considered opinions from idiots.
Clone of reddit with a little bit of 4chan edge from feeling antisocial and anti authoritarian in here as well.
I'm not sure how merit based would work but I still think a public shame board of recent bans with their comment or post that got them banned with how long would do a lot to make it more obvious what the mods do and who is repeat offending.
I mostly just try to vote on what is relevant to the conversation but it's a mess on all the social media sites these days.
True. Seems like nothing has changed since the BBS days, that's why I use the language of "fundamental problems" going unsolved.
The "problem" is huge and totally non-trivial.
There was this whole phase of Lemmy where it was looking like an alternative instead of a clone.
So maybe Lemmy was almost like a clone of Schwartz-era reddit, before becoming more of a transplant of post-2014 or even Spez era reddit.